The Meriwether Academy is a Nashville-based group dedicated to reviving the ideal of the American man. Currently it is a men’s civic organization that hosts outdoor retreats, formal-dressed philosophy symposium dinners, and Great Books dialogues. Its ultimate ambition is to build a boys’ school centered around classical and outdoor education. The group is led by Warren Steury.
Meriwether has become quite popular in Nashville, now attracting forty men to its monthly philosophy symposium dinners. It has shown that there is a wider demand for this type of programming. It has shown there is a demand for male-only spaces—that this is something missing in the lives of many American men
